A few days before Christmas, Ken Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, went to visit a stairwell in the Louis Pink Houses, a public-housing complex in East New York, arguably the city’s most dangerous neighborhood. A month earli...

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson died on Sunday after a battle with cancer, his family announced, NBC New York reports. He was 50 years old. In a statement on Tuesday, Thompson announced a leave of absence in order to fight h...

Ken Thompson, the first African-American to be elected district attorney of Brooklyn, has died at age 50 of complications from cancer, his office said on Sunday.
As chief prosecutor of New York’s Kings County, which encompasses the ...

Days after announcing he was taking a leave of absence, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson has died. He was 50. "With a heavy heart, the family of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced that the District Attorney pas...